I wanted the user to say clearly that they do not conflate democracy with fascism.
It says “Fascists claim to be saving democracy from communism” and that might initially seem like a benign statement, as is intended, but unfortunately it groups together democracy and fascism and draws a line of separation for communism.
Sadly a very large demographic of people on the fediverse, namely on hexbear, lemmy.ml, lemmygrad, and several conservative instances, believe that the “fascists” does not only apply to people like the GOP, AFD, or Reform UK but rather that all western politicians are a form of fascism and they believe that democracy has failed or never existed to begin with.
It’s kind of like how big tobacco started selling cigarettes to women by branding them as “torches of freedom” during the women’s suffrage movements, by getting people to associate what you want them to buy into with the things that they actually like you play a psychological trick. The opposite is true as well where you can get people to associate things they don’t like, fascism, to the thing you want them to doubt, democracy.
I wanted the user to say clearly that they do not conflate democracy with fascism.
It says “Fascists claim to be saving democracy from communism” and that might initially seem like a benign statement, as is intended, but unfortunately it groups together democracy and fascism and draws a line of separation for communism.
Sadly a very large demographic of people on the fediverse, namely on hexbear, lemmy.ml, lemmygrad, and several conservative instances, believe that the “fascists” does not only apply to people like the GOP, AFD, or Reform UK but rather that all western politicians are a form of fascism and they believe that democracy has failed or never existed to begin with.
It’s kind of like how big tobacco started selling cigarettes to women by branding them as “torches of freedom” during the women’s suffrage movements, by getting people to associate what you want them to buy into with the things that they actually like you play a psychological trick. The opposite is true as well where you can get people to associate things they don’t like, fascism, to the thing you want them to doubt, democracy.